Verb
To divide into individual portions before use.
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Take the time to review the menu and identify items that can be preportioned.
In the second and fourth weeks, trained servers preportioned kindergarteners' plates with 4 nuggets.
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I just wasn't sure if I wanted to devote part of my weekend to chopping veggies, cooking and dicing chicken breasts, and preportioning everything when I wasn't even cooking a meal.